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Stobaeus, Volume II
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Book II Chapter 7 · II.7.13.15
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p. 400Εὔνοια φυσικὴ καὶ φιλία
Φανερὸν οὖν ὅτι πρὸς πάντας ἐστὶν ἡμῖν εὔνοια φυσικὴ καὶ φιλία, τὸ δι’ αὑθ’ αἱρετὸν ἐμφαίνουσα καὶ τὸ κατὰ λόγον·
ἓν γὰρ ἀνδρῶν, ἓν θεῶν γένος· ἐκ μιᾶς δὲ πνέομεν ματρὸς ἀμφότεροι,τῆς φύσεως.
Stobaeus, Volume II: Book II Chapter 7
p. 401Natural Goodwill and Affection
It is clear, then, that we have natural goodwill and affection toward all, showing what is choiceworthy for its own sake and what accords with reason:
For one is the race of men, one the race of gods; from one mother we both draw breath,
namely, nature.535
Socrates
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The complete surviving text of Stobaeus’s second book, through II.46.22, in Ancient Greek and English, with an introduction and 1,541 explanatory notes. All forty-six chapter headings remain, including the notices for chapters whose texts are missing.
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Greek: Curt Wachsmuth, Ioannis Stobaei Anthologii libri duo priores, volumen II (Berlin: Weidmann, 1884), printed p. 1 and pp. 3–264. The supplied edition preserves consequential editorial signs, reconstructed joins, qualified attributions, and missing-text notices. English translation, introduction, and explanatory notes: Diotimos Editions, 2026.
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